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Africa Subsaharan
Niger: thousands rally to demand withdrawal of French troops
[AFRICANEWS] Thousands rallied Saturday, in Niamey to demand that France withdraw its troops from Niger, as sought by the junta that seized power late June.

The protesters gathered near a base housing French soldiers following a call by several civic organizations’ hostile to French military presence in the West African country.

"We are here to express our determination, our commitment and our devotion to getting the French military force and all the military bases on our national territory out of the country," explained protester Amidou Gourou.

Niger's military regime had fired a new verbal broadside at France on Friday, accusing Paris of "blatant interference" by backing the country's ousted president Mohamed Bazoum.

Early August, the regime announced the scrapping of military agreements with France, which has some 1,500 soldiers stationed in the country to help fight jihadism in the region.

Paris ignored the move on grounds of legitimacy.

The military rulers have also announced the immediate "expulsion" of the French ambassador Sylvain Itte and announced the withdrawal of his diplomatic immunity, stating his presence was a threat to public order.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday hailed Itte's work in Niger and said he will stay in the country, despite being given a 48-hour deadline to leave Niger a week ago.

Posted by: Fred || 09/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Now forming committees to investigate collapsing revenue streams of working girls sex trade workers, black market retailers, off base landlords, tailors, merchandisers, local alcohol resellers, child smugglers, pharmaceutical vendors, ...
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/04/2023 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Tell the French that we’ll give them some air cover.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/04/2023 11:28 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Memory of the terrorist attack in Beslan unites the inhabitants of North Ossetia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Funeral events dedicated to the 19th anniversary of the terrorist act in Beslan ended in North Ossetia. People who came to school No. 1 in Beslan lit candles, carried flowers in memory of the dead, brought bottles of water, opened them and left them in the gym. Many families came to school these days and brought their children with them, told them about what had happened, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

On September 1, mourning events were held in Beslan on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the seizure of the school. People came to school number 1 to lay flowers in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack.

Zalina Aguzarova, a resident of Vladikavkaz, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in 2004, when the terrorist attack happened, she was going to college.

“We came here with a group after 40 days. The literature teacher told us: "If you go there, you will leave there as a completely different person." And it is true. When we came here, we saw everything, we left here matured. This year I came here with my children, let them know what happened and let them remember. This, of course, is impossible to forget,” the girl said.

“Each person in these days of mourning should come here and be with all the relatives of the victims. My distant relatives died here. In such a tragedy, even if you didn’t have anyone here, you have to come and mourn,” a woman who introduced herself as Aida told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent. 

On September 1, 2004, militants seized 1,128 hostages in the gymnasium of School No. 1 in Beslan. The operation to free them ended on September 3, 2004. As a result of the attack, 334 people were killed, including 186 children, and another 810 people were injured. The "Caucasian Knot" has prepared a report " Terrorist act in Beslan (September 1-3, 2004) " and a chronicle of the terrorist act and the events that followed it.

A resident of Beslan, who introduced herself as Tamara, said that in 2004, during a terrorist attack, her husband's cousin was taken hostage along with her son. The boy managed to escape, but his mother died. “Nothing has changed, the pain also remains,” said the girl.

Svetlana Glebovna came to Beslan from Mozdok with her son and grandchildren. According to her, she had previously been to the City of Angels memorial cemetery, but this was her first time at school.

“It is a holy cause not only for Ossetia, but for the whole world to visit this place so that this does not happen again. I would not like to go to such events, but if we stop doing this, then this (terrorist attacks) will be endless ... I would not want to be in this place at that day and hour, because here you can go crazy and fall dead. If it’s scary now, how do people live with these memories in general? These are strong people and we must help them, do not forget, do not be indifferent,” she said.

According to Svetlana Glebovna, she welcomes the fact that people bring children to school, because "children should go to children."

Ramina from Vladikavkaz said that her neighbors were taken hostage during the attack... “Every time I go to the gym, it's like the first time, with the same pain. Absolutely nothing changes,” said the girl, not hiding her tears.

The deputy director for educational work of the school from Nevinnosmyssk, Natalya Mazaeva, came to Beslan for the first time with the teaching staff. After visiting the school, she said that "everyone should be here." “It will never be forgotten. This is where the walls speak. When you watch it on TV, it's one thing, but when it's around and you're in the middle, it's completely different. Whatever the situation from a political point of view, innocent children suffered here, families died ... We can talk a lot about politics, about rulers, but children should never suffer,” said Natalya Mazaeva.

Many people refused to speak to reporters.

Victims of terrorist attacks have been trying for many years to pass a law that would define the duty of the state to help the victims of a terrorist attack. In July 2022, the victims of the terrorist attack complained about the obstacles in receiving medical care. Due to the absence of a law on the victims of the terrorist attack, the money allocated from the budget to the victims is not enough to treat and rehabilitate all the former hostages, representatives of the Mothers of Beslan and Voice of Beslan said.

At 13:05, 334 white balloons were released into the sky in the school yard, symbolizing the souls of those killed in the attack.

Then a religious procession was made from the school to the memorial cemetery "City of Angels" with photographs of the dead. There, at the "Tree of Sorrow" after the names of all those killed in the terrorist act were read to the sounds of a metronome, representatives of the leadership of North and South Ossetia laid flowers and wreaths. The mourning events dedicated to the 19th anniversary of the terrorist act in Beslan ended with a requiem concert and a screening of the film.

Recall that only 14 years after the tragedy, in December 2018, the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District announced the first official recognition since the terrorist attack that the storming of the school was planned from the beginning, despite the protests of local residents. The presidential envoy also confirmed that the school was fired from a tank. In 2019, on the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attack, the book Outpost. Beslan and Its Hostages was published, written by Olga Allenova, a journalist for the Kommersant publication. The author then told the "Caucasian Knot" blogger Alan Tskhurbaev that this is a book about a tragedy that is still "not lived through by our society, not comprehended, because there were and remain many lies about this terrorist attack," and therefore, "there is no hope that it won't happen again."
Posted by: badanov || 09/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
France's Public Schools Ready to Enforce Dress Code Banning Islamic Dress
[Breitbart] Head-to-toe robes worn by Muslims, known as abayas for girls and women and khamis for boys and men, have been banned from France’s public school classrooms beginning Monday.

As Breitbart News reported, the move was flagged last week when Education Minister Gabriel Attal told France’s TF1 TV that religious garb has no place in the classroom, declaring the garment breached France’s strict secular laws in education.

“When you walk into a classroom, you shouldn’t be able to identify the pupils’ religion just by looking at them,” Attal said, adding: “I have decided that the abaya could no longer be worn in schools.”

He said he would give “clear rules at the national level” to school heads ahead of the return to classes nationwide from September 4 to enforce the end of Islamic dress on school grounds.

French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Sunday rejected any accusation of unfair treatment with the introduction of this ban as the move was confirmed 24-hours ahead of classes resuming.

“I can see that there is manipulation and attempts at provocation on the part of some. I’m thinking in particular of LFI (La France Insoumise or France Unbowed – a French left-wing political party),” Borne said in an interview with French radio network RTL.

“But I want to state things very clearly: there is no stigmatisation. Every one of our fellow citizens, whatever their religion, has their place in our country,” she said.

“There is one principle: secularism. And there’s a law prohibiting the wearing of any sign or garment by which a student manifests his or her religious affiliation. This law must be applied to everyone, and we’ll make sure that it is properly applied,” said Borne.

President Emmanuel Macron addressed the dress code for the first time after visiting a professional school in the Vaucluse region of southern France.

“We know there will be cases” of students testing the rule, the president said, including ones trying to “defy the republican system”. Macron said they would not be able to slip into class, stressing that “we will be intractable on the subject.”

Ordering how the new measure would be enforced, Macron said “specific personnel” would be sent to “sensitive” schools to help principals and teachers and to initiate dialogue with students and families, if needed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/04/2023 00:02 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  I forsee lotsa French madrasa's.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/04/2023 9:54 Comments || Top||

#2  French intelligentsia have bee anticlerical for centuries...
Posted by: magpie || 09/04/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  ^...been
Posted by: magpie || 09/04/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Bring the frenchies back from Niger and send the school kids there.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/04/2023 11:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Even if they're dressed like little French boys and girls they will still look different, they will still speak differently and they will still cause problems.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/04/2023 11:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Book claims Biden 'exploded' as Afghanistan collapsed during his vacation: 'Give me a break!'
[NYPOST] President Biden had an explosive reaction when he was told the president of Afghanistan had fled Kabul ahead of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
’s takeover of the city in 2021, according to a new book.

On Friday, Aug. 12, 2021, Biden left DC for what was expected to be a mid-August vacation to Camp David.

Three days later, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told him the news that the then-president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
, had fled as the Taliban was poised to march into the capital.

"Biden went kaboom! in frustration" when he heard the news and exclaimed, "Give me a break!" according to the forthcoming book "The Last Politician" by journalist Franklin Foer, which describes the inner workings at the White House during the calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

Biden wasn’t the only one on vacation when Ghani escaped and it became clear to the world that the American withdrawal from Afghanistan would be far more chaotic than the administration expected.

The Biden White House had expected a gradual handover of responsibility to the Afghan government until Aug. 31, 2021, when the Taliban would begin to take an active role in governing the country.

Instead, the Taliban rapidly took over territories as the US moved out of various bases and were marching on Afghanistan before Ghani fled, fearing for his life.
Posted by: Fred || 09/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  They forgot to mention what he took with him on his way out the door.

"SIGAR examined other examples of alleged theft by senior Afghan officials as the government collapsed, including tens of millions of dollars from the operating budget of the National Directorate of Security. More broadly, although there appears to have been ample opportunity and effort to plunder Afghan government coffers, at this time SIGAR does not have sufficient evidence to determine with certainty whether hundreds of millions of dollars were removed from the country by Afghan officials as the government collapsed or whether any stolen money was provided by the United States."


Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/04/2023 11:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Not sure that looting the treasury was a bad thing in this case.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/04/2023 11:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden exploded? A beautiful thought but probably just a metaphor.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/04/2023 14:58 Comments || Top||


New York City allows mosques to broadcast call to prayer on Fridays
01-09-2023
[Rudaw] Moslems can now broadcast calls to prayer, adhan, on Fridays and at sunset during the holy month of Ramadan in New York City through loudspeakers without having to seek permission from the city's local authorities, announced the city’s mayor.

"Today we are cutting red tape and saying clearly that if you are a mosque or a house of worship of any kind, you do not have to apply for a permit to amplify your call to Friday prayer," Adams said on Tuesday while surrounded by a number of Moslem men and women inside the New York City municipality.

"You are free to live your faith in New York City."

The announcement has sparked joy among NYC’s some 800,000 Moslem population.
Real or a gross exaggeration? A few years ago CAIR was fond of claiming that there were six million Moslems in America, at a time when there were somewhere between one and two million.
"This is the constitutional right as American citizen," Muhammad Shahidullah, a Moslem resident of New York City, told Rudaw’s Sinan Tuncdemir, describing the decision as "a huge historical announcement to practice our faith our own way."

Sheikh Musa Drommeh, a Friday sermon giver in NYC also hailed the announcement as a "huge milestone."

According to the New York Police Department guidance, mosques can now broadcast the call to prayer on Fridays between 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm, and at sunset during Ramadhan.

The call to prayer is usually broadcast publicly over speakers that summon members of the Moslem faith for prayer.

There were 285 mosques in New York City in 2015, according to a report from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, adding that Moslems made up around nine percent of New York City's population in 2016.

Related from President George W. Bush’s term: American and Muslim: 6 Million People in Search of an Identity
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  Where the Church Bells stop ringing Satan's Muslim Clerics start singing.
Posted by: Jeremiah Jomosing7109 || 09/04/2023 5:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The adhan is done 5 times a day, every day, in much of the Islamic world.

There is an adhan ap that moslems can place on their cell phone which takes the place of the muezzin calling from the mosque tower. Much less noise polluting.

Posted by: lord garth || 09/04/2023 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  and at sunset

"Night workers get wakeup call"
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/04/2023 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder how the new colonists will view this.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/04/2023 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Nothing a lot of other people blasting AC/DC and Ramones 5 times a day can't fix.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/04/2023 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6  We will now hear complaints about Puerto Rican flight.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/04/2023 11:30 Comments || Top||

#7  It ain't the Crescent Moon over the Hagia Sophia, but give them time...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/04/2023 11:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Which NYC building should they fly into next? Flatiron? Empire State? Chrystler? Gracee Manor?
Posted by: Regular joe || 09/04/2023 14:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Waffle House
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/04/2023 14:14 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
'Puppet being used to defame Pakistan globally,' Sanaullah slams Imran for hiring UK lawyer
[GEO.TV] Amid reports that former prime minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
hired a UK-based lawyer to represent him in international courts, Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and ex-interior minister Rana Sanaullah said Sunday that a "puppet is being used to defame Pakistain globally".
"That's OUR job!"
"Going to the International Court of Justice means making Pakistain stand in the global dock as a criminal," the senior PML-N leader said adding that only enemies of Pakistain could do this despicable act.

On September 1, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) announced on its official X — formerly known as Twitter — account: "PTI chairman and former PM Imran Khan has appointed the eminent human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
Barrister Geoffrey Robertson KC of Doughty Street Chambers to advise and represent him in international courts in relation to unlawful detention and human rights abuses."

A PTI source in Islamabad said that the decision to hire Robertson was taken by Khan on the advice of Omar Ayub Khan, Zulfi Bukhari and his lawyers in Pakistain after consulting "some important people in the UK".

Subsequently, on September 2, PTI revoked the services of Geoffrey Robertson KC after backlash and severe criticism in the media.

Doughty Street Chambers said it has been told by PTI that Robertson’s services will not be required due to criticism in Pakistain.

In a statement today, Sanaullah took a jibe at Khan saying the "blue-eyed" of the judicial system did not need to go abroad.

"Who is spending money on Imran Niazi?" the former interior minister asked. "Those he works for are trying to save him. First, they made him a hero, gave him foreign funding and brought him to power after which Pakistain’s economy and foreign relations were destroyed."

He further said that the path to civil war was paved through inflation whereas the minds of the youth were filled with "gunpowder so that could attack when and where they wanted".

Furthermore, Sanaullah said that occupants of Paleostine and Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(IIOJK) were jubilant when they found out that Pakistain would be taken to international court.

As soon as PTI announced it had hired Robertson there was a lot of criticism in the media that the lawyer has been involved in campaigns against the Pak military, propagating false theories about the 1971 war and the breakup of Bangladesh from Pakistain.

In August, PTI announced it revoked engagements of UK solicitor Rashad Yaqoob, his organization Human Rights Legal Aid Foundation (HRLAF) and Azhar Siddique, the Pakistain Supreme Court lawyer who is now based in Manchester.
Posted by: Fred || 09/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/04/2023 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Jeff Dunham must have updated his gig.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/04/2023 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Ah, so that's who that is. Thanks. Speaking of puppets, puppeteers, and stuff stumbled across...

Who worships Barack and hates Reagan?
Meet Sesame socialist M----
(no, please prove me wrong!),
Independent and strong,
And the reason your station keeps beggin'.
Posted by: Omeamp Ebbeans8211 || 09/04/2023 18:32 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Not a race thing. Ever. The day any such creature publicly repudiate the current crazy, I immediately join their fan club. Got all the membership cards right here in me big fat wallet... [moth]
Posted by: Omeamp Ebbeans8211 || 09/04/2023 18:37 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Nearly 180 Yazidis return to Shingal
01-09-2023
[Rudaw] Iraq’s ministry of migration and displaced on Friday announced that a new group of Yazidis, numbering 179 people, have voluntarily returned to their homes in Shingal (Sinjar) after years living in camps in Duhok province.

Security forces coordinated with the local governments in Nineveh and Duhok to ensure their safe return to the Yazidi homeland, according to a statement from the ministry.

Yazidis in Shingal were subjected to countless heinous atrocities, including forced marriages, sexual violence, and massacres when the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) captured the city in 2014, committing genocide and bringing destruction to many villages and towns populated by the minority group. The Yazidis were forced to flee to camps across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. The town was liberated from the group in late 2015, but lack of reconstruction, political disputes, and ongoing insecurity have prevented most families from returning to their homes.

Minister of Migration and Displaced Evan Faeq Jabro emphasized the need to combine all efforts to facilitate the return of all Iraq’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), said the statement from her ministry.

Naif Saido, mayor of Shingal, told Rudaw on Wednesday that 60 percent of Shingal residents still live in IDP camps and houses in the Kurdistan Region, mainly in Duhok province. He blamed political and financial factors as well as the Iraqi government’s failure to rebuild the houses that were destroyed during the war with ISIS.

Baghdad and Erbil signed an agreement in 2020 to normalize the situation in Shingal, but the deal has yet to be implemented.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli pm urges immediate deportation of Eritrean clash participants
[AFRICANEWS] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the immediate deportation of Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
n migrants colonists involved in recent violent mostly peaceful festivities in Tel Aviv.

He held a meeting to discuss measures against those who participated, referring to them as illegal infiltrators.

"What happened yesterday crossed a red line. It’s a riot, it’s bloodshed, these are riots we cannot accept. Therefore, the first thing I do is to wish recovery to the coppers who were maimed during the attempts to restore order. We ask for strong measures against the rioters, including the immediate deportation of those who took part in it," said Benjamin Netanyahu.

This statement followed a violent mostly peaceful confrontation between Eritrean government supporters and opponents, resulting in injuries to dozens, including coppers and protesters hit by police fire.

Eritreans constitute the majority of the African asylum seekers in Israel, but Israel recognizes only a few as asylum seekers, viewing most as economic migrants colonists.

"I have a hard time understanding why we would have a problem with those who declare themselves to be supporters of the (Eritrean) regime, so they certainly cannot make a claim of to be refugees. I also request that this forum will prepare a complete and updated plan for the removal of all other illegal infiltrators from the state of Israel, and this is the purpose of this gathering today," added the PM.

The presence of migrants colonists has been a divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
issue in the country, with supporters advocating for asylum and opponents citing concerns about crime in low-income neighbourhoods where they reside.

Posted by: Fred || 09/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Hey, Massachusetts...
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/04/2023 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Supreme Court won't let deport them - one of the reasons we NEED the reform.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/04/2023 9:53 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US, Coalition officials meet with SDF, tribal leaders to calm Deir ez-Zor tensions
[Rudaw] Officials from the US and the US-led coalition met with representatives from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Arab tribal leaders from Deir ez-Zor province in an effort to restore calm to the province after a week of festivities between Kurdish forces and pro-regime militias, the US embassy in Syria said on Sunday.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Ethan Goldrich and Major General Joel B. Vowell, commander of the US-led coalition, met with the SDF and tribal leaders from Deir ez-Zor where they "agreed on the importance of addressing the grievances of residents" and "the dangers of outsiders interfering" in the province, the US Embassy in Syria said on X, formerly known as Twitter

They also stressed "the need to avoid civilian deaths and casualties, and the need for de-escalation of violence as soon as possible," the statement added.

Clashes have been taking place for a week in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province between Kurdish forces and pro-regime militias after a curfew was imposed in the province with fighting having left at least 50 dead.

Tensions escalated last week after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested Ahmed Khbeil, better known as Abu Khawla, commander of the SDF-linked Deir ez-Zor Military Council, and four of his colleagues on a list of charges including drug trafficking and coordinating with "external entities." Both sides have suffered casualties over the week.

The Arab-majority province was where Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) Lions of Islam made their last stand and were territorially defeated. Control of the province, which borders Iraq, is now split between the SDF and the Syrian regime, with its Iranian backer. It is also home to many of the country’s key oilfields, such as Omar and Conoco, which the US-led global coalition against ISIS helps the SDF protect.

Clashes in the province have so far killed at least 54 people, including six children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.

The US-led coalition on Saturday urged an end to the violence, saying that destabilization of the region will only bring violence while reiterating its commitment to the SDF.

"It is imperative that all local leaders resist the influence of malign actors who promise many rewards but will deliver only suffering to the peoples of the area," the Coalition said in a statement.

"This poses dire consequences and only allows for a situation that nobody welcomes — the resurgence of our common enemy - ISIS," it added, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.

On Friday, the SDF announced a 48-hour curfew in parts of the province under its control, accusing pro-Damascus fighters of trying to "cause strife in the region and attempting to lure civilians into their dirty plans."

Before declaring the curfew, the SDF said that pro-Damascus groups attacked several sites in Deir ez-Zor and simultaneously Ottoman Turkish proxies attacked a village near Manbij in the north of the country.

On Sunday, SOHR reported that SDF fighters reinforced their control over two towns in Deir ez-Zor where there had been festivities with pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
militias.

There is a history of tense relations between the Kurdish-led SDF and some Arab tribes in the province. Some anti-SDF groups have claimed that the Kurdish-led force is targeting Arabs, but the SDF has denied this.

The Deir ez-Zor Military Council is responsible for the security in the SDF-held areas of the province and has played a key role in military operations against ISIS in Syria. Abu Khawla has reportedly been replaced by his deputy, Abu Laith Khisham.
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Turkish Foreign Ministry announces continuation of talks with Russia and Iran on Syria
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Turkey continues to discuss the issues of normalizing relations with Syria in a quadripartite format with the participation of Iran and Russia. This was stated by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan at a press conference in Tehran after negotiations with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian . The broadcast was carried out by the Anadolu agency.

Turkish FM announces continuation of talks with Russia and Iran on Syria
“Together with Iran and Russia, we continue to work on Syria in a quadripartite format,” he said, adding that the range of issues is large.

The diplomat noted that, of course, there are things that each of the parties cannot agree to, but the discussion continues.

According to him, Turkey expressed clear expectations about what it wants to see from Syria as part of the process of normalizing relations between Ankara and Damascus.

“First of all, these are concrete measures of the Syrian government that inspire confidence so that Syrian refugees can safely and safely return from Turkey to their homeland,
Why would President Assad care about them? They are not, after all, happy, trustworthy supporters of his government. His father’s response to a similar attitude was to wipe out Hama...
so that measures are taken against new waves of refugees in our direction,” he said, adding that Turkey also expects that the leadership of Syria will pay due attention to cooperation with Ankara in the fight against terrorism.

As reported by IA Regnum, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on September 1 that Moscow offered Syria and Turkey to return to an agreement allowing Turkish forces to fight terrorists on Syrian territory, but in agreement with Damascus.

The agreement assumed that there was a terrorist threat, and in order to stop it, Ankara would have the right, in agreement with Damascus, to send its anti-terrorist structures to a certain depth of Syrian territory, he recalled.

Turkey is negotiating with the Russian Federation and Syria on the return of Syrian refugees to Aleppo province. According to the channel, the plan, which will be implemented jointly by the Turkish Interior Ministry and the ruling Justice and Development Party, will eliminate the problems associated with illegal migration.

Earlier, Russian President's Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said that the draft roadmap for the normalization of relations between Syria and Turkey, proposed by Russia, is ready.

Following the quadripartite meeting held in Moscow on May 10, the Foreign Ministers of Russia, Iran, Syria and Turkey instructed their deputies to develop a roadmap for normalizing relations between Syria and Turkey. It is necessary to move this process forward.

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#1  Why would President Assad care about them? They are not, after all, happy, trustworthy supporters of his government.

Somebody's gotta work.
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